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the internet is, primarily, a tool that enables you to freely encounter certain types of people that you would only otherwise see at a rural Walmart at 3am

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and it sucks cause like. even in feminist scholarship about empowerment you’re still stuck with narrow proscribed roles. instead of “madonna/whore” you get “maiden/mother/crone”. terrible options! great if you like that sort of thing I guess but you are SOL if you want to be defined by literally anything other than your proximity to childrearing

[letterful]

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my problem is that my ideal fashion style is the “you look like you listen to Merzbow […]” copypasta but it’s impossible to google for because it just assumes you’re looking for rivethead fashion which PERSONALLY JUST IMO I find immensely unappealing. my second problem, even worse than the first, is that it’s very hard to find fashion scenes that are gender neutral in an androgynous way. tradgoth is close but tradgoth androgyny involves lots of makeup which I don’t fw for complicated personal reasons

anyway im trying to find refs for how to get a fit off in summer without wearing a jacket and it’s vexing me

[moe-doll]

via Trendyful for iPhone

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Panasonic RP-HTX7 headphones that were discontinued a few years back which is a crying shame because they were imo some of the best looking headphones around

[sexybritishllama]

idk man sometimes i like it when video game writers are allowed to plan a series of events that happen in a specific order and affect each other in turn to become an overarching narrative, and i don’t mind trusting those writers to take me through those events in the order that is emotionally effective. i don’t really care if a game forces me to go through the forest area first before i can attempt the icy area because maybe there’s things that happen in the forest area that inform later scenes in the icy area. maybe we don't need more superficial player choice open world concepts if it comes at the cost of the ability to write a story with actual significant plot events and character development in each section

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so some new FFXIV core system tweaks include this new feature with, afaict, does full self-driving of your character to your quest destination. and some western players are calling this an accessibility feature. and like, we may have lost the plot on what "game accessibility" means. because to *me* this seems like a direct appeal to CN players rather than an accessibility feature for players who have difficulty, uh... moving their character but only in the overworld?

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gameplay accessibility in the form of simplifying mechanically complex inputs I understand the argument for, but if the struggle is with the main input for playing the game, in a way that accessible controllers aren't enough to remedy, then... idk what you're getting out of playing the game that you're not already getting from fanworks and lore videos

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waking up at 4am tomorrow for video game news #dedication

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roblox oof

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sephiroth real

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so some new FFXIV core system tweaks include this new feature with, afaict, does full self-driving of your character to your quest destination. and some western players are calling this an accessibility feature. and like, we may have lost the plot on what "game accessibility" means. because to *me* this seems like a direct appeal to CN players rather than an accessibility feature for players who have difficulty, uh... moving their character but only in the overworld?

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waking up at 4am tomorrow for video game news #dedication

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roblox oof

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you see an east coast girl who's like, introverted, mousy-pretty, well educated highly literate, and very skinny and you're like I bet your boyfriend has a moustache, a blank khaki ballcap he wears everywhere, those wireframe glasses, 5-10 criterion blurays, and a leica/telecaster he never uses. and you are usually right

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waking up at 4am tomorrow for video game news #dedication

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the performative narcan carrying is kind of grating ngl. if you exclusively take public transportation and you also work with vulnerable populations sure, but if the only places you go to are driving to your desk job or your d&d group then it's about the same as putting a "refugees welcome" sign in your upper middle class neighborhood

[deadgenerations]

I love him he's so fat and happy plopped down w his little booksy

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there's been an ongoing criminal investigation happening in philly featuring two or more federal agencies, none of them saying anything at all besides "we arrested this guy on federal firearms charges", and every few days or so there's a local news update that reads like "we flew a drone over and the FBI has the street blocked off digging up the sewer pipes" and "investigators found a 55-gallon drum with connections to waterlines leading into a hole in the ground". when you guys see this on the national news in a month remember I told you about this first!

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the second article I linked from the Inquirer is nuts like genuinely insane stuff here. if I tried to quote the most wild stuff I would just end up reposting the full text. but if I had to pick the top pull quote it's gotta be this:

Horsch’s late father, Raymond “R.C.” Horsch was a known drug manufacturer and erotic filmmaker who had published several works of fiction with violent, masochistic themes, including one described as an “autobiographical memoir of a caring, empathetic serial killer.”

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oh btw the only reason law enforcement caught this case is because Jawn Meth was illegally parked by Independence Hall, which is National Park Service property, and park police are federal and do not fuck around

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there's been an ongoing criminal investigation happening in philly featuring two or more federal agencies, none of them saying anything at all besides "we arrested this guy on federal firearms charges", and every few days or so there's a local news update that reads like "we flew a drone over and the FBI has the street blocked off digging up the sewer pipes" and "investigators found a 55-gallon drum with connections to waterlines leading into a hole in the ground". when you guys see this on the national news in a month remember I told you about this first!

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the second article I linked from the Inquirer is nuts like genuinely insane stuff here. if I tried to quote the most wild stuff I would just end up reposting the full text. but if I had to pick the top pull quote it's gotta be this:

Horsch’s late father, Raymond “R.C.” Horsch was a known drug manufacturer and erotic filmmaker who had published several works of fiction with violent, masochistic themes, including one described as an “autobiographical memoir of a caring, empathetic serial killer.”

[56kilobits]

there's been an ongoing criminal investigation happening in philly featuring two or more federal agencies, none of them saying anything at all besides "we arrested this guy on federal firearms charges", and every few days or so there's a local news update that reads like "we flew a drone over and the FBI has the street blocked off digging up the sewer pipes" and "investigators found a 55-gallon drum with connections to waterlines leading into a hole in the ground". when you guys see this on the national news in a month remember I told you about this first!